Quotes About Leadership

It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere.

I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.

The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.

If women decide that their mission, their political career, balances out what they have to give up, they can be and are equally successful as men.

In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.

Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.

Without women's full inclusion at the decision making table, we cannot have any healthy decision making that is good for men and women alike.

Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker.

I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with saddles on their backs.

Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself

Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.

Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate.

I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.

Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.

In order to be a leader a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence.

If we only elected good men, we'd never have leaders.

To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.

Great things have been effected by a few men well conducted.

If many have their turns to rule, ... this will encourage all men to advance Righteousness and that the Commonwealth will hereby be furnished with able and experienced men, fit to govern.

Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.

Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was not very close to the military.